Features

Spain

UNESCO Chair in Education Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean (492), established in 1999 at the University of Alcalá de Henares (Spain).

Fields/Disciplines

Education Sciences.

Objectives

To study and propose models of natural sciences education allowing to improve quality of education and to promote equal opportunities

To design and develop postgraduate programmes of study for the training of trainers of teachers of natural sciences

To create and promote in the universities the network of specialists in science didactics.

To strengthen national capabilities to adapt the teaching programme of sciences to the realities of the country and to cooperate in the development of didactic material for teachers and students.

To optimize resources thanks to the use of the bibliography and databases of the concerned institutions.

To design communication material to support the dissemination of teaching knowledge and innovations generated within the framework of the project by teachers of natural sciences.

To facilitate the exchanges of teachers among the institutions of the concerned areas to allow them to complete their training, to make them know about other education systems and to develop joint projects.